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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Plans & Progress - The Basement

Slowly but surely we are adding to and furnishing our basement. We have a partially finished, huge space downstairs (>600 sq feet) that we cannot wait to finish off completely. But since we do not have a whole lot of cash flow right now, it will definitely be finished in bits and pieces over time.

One huge change to our household that has greatly affected our use of the basement: we have a new roomie! One of our good friends, Sandy, has moved into our basement for a little while. We are so excited to have him and I am honestly just impressed that he is willing to live down there :) He is working with Rob at FCA so it works out perfectly to have him live with us. Our basement is also sets up really well to have somebody live with us - he has his own entrance and level, so he has plenty of privacy. The only thing I wish we could add down there is a bathroom. In the meantime, he does have his own bathroom on our level.

So we did a few things to clean things up for him before he came - we didn't really add much - we just SCRUBBED everything. We spent a good full weekend cleaning it all for his arrival. We lined his shelves in his closet, put some lamps down there, got him a welcome mat, etc. During that time, I developed great anxiety that he would walk in, see our basement, and change his mind. Rob said "he's a guy...don't worry".

But he's here (he didn't walk out) and we love having him! This week we added an alarm keypad to the basement so that he doesn't have to come in upstairs (into our bedroom) to turn off and set the alarm. The basement is already armed with the alarm of course but just adding another keypad will help with convenience and functionality.

Here are the before pictures of our partially finished basement on the day we moved in...

View as you walk down the stairs...

View to the right at the bottom of the stairs (Ps I totally dig that light - it's staying)